Denmark: Somali indicted for selling daughter, 12, as sex slave in Africa

A 44-year-old Somali-Dane has been indicted by a Danish court for selling his 12-year-old daughter into sexual slavery in Kenya and Somalia and forcibly circumcising her. The trial against the 44-year-old, who was arrested in January of 2022, began this week on Tuesday at a Danish court and is related to allegations that the man abused his daughter and his son in Africa between June 2017 and December 2021. The indictment claims that the 44-year-old took his two children, aged nine and 12, from their home in the Odense district of Vollsmose to Africa where both were subjected to Muslim “re-education” with the aid of family members, Ekstra Bladet reports. According to the newspaper, the girl was forcibly subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) by her own grandmother and a group of other women. The father is also accused of selling his own daughter for sex on multiple occasions to strangers who raped the girl. During the four-and-a-half-year ordeal, th